saccular

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Formed of or divided into a series of saclike dilations or pouches.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Having the form of a series of sacs or pouches; sacculate

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Like a sac; sacciform.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Like a sac; saccate in form; sacciform: as, a saccular dilatation of the stomach or intestine.

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Examples

Its posterior part (the so-called saccular lung) has unique thick, muscular walls* that allows stored air to be forced forward into the functional anterior part (termed the bronchial lung) and the anterior projection of the lung (the so-called tracheal lung) is large and extends well forwards relative to that of terrestrial snakes.

Both the tubular and the saccular glands may, by branching, form a great number of similar divisions which are connected with one another, and which communicate by a common opening with the place where the secretion is used.

It used to be considered a disease of middle age, but of late years Dr Walter Carr has shown that the condition is a fairly common one among debilitated children after measles, whooping cough, &c. The dilatation is commonly cylindrical, more rarely saccular, and it is the medium and smaller sized tubes that are generally affected, except where the cause is mechanical.